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WEBVTT THE DAUGHTER OF ONE OF THE TWOWOMEN WHO CREATED THE FIRSTCHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE.THERE ARE A LOT OF FIRSTS IN OURCOUNTRY THAT BEGAN RIGHT HERE INMASSACHUSETTS.OF COURSE, THE FIRSTTHANKSGIVING, THE FIRST WORLDSERIES, THE FIRST AMERICANUNIVERSITY, AND THE VERY FIRSTCHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE INVENTEDTHAT THE TOLL HOUSE IN.RUTH GRAVES WAKEFIELD WAS THEOWNER AND HER RIGHT HAND LADY INTHE KITCHEN WAS THIS WOMAN'SMOTHER.MARIA: TELL EVERYBODY WHO YOURMOTHER WAS.>> SUE BRIGHT.SHE MADE THE FIRST TOLLHOUSECOOKIE.MARIA: SUE WAS THE HEAD BAKERAND SHE BROUGHT HER HOME -- HERWORK HOME WITH HER,, MUCH TO THEDELIGHT OF HER FAMILY.RUTH: I USED TO THROW STUFF OUTBECAUSE SHE MADE SO MUCH.MARIA: I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TOMEET PEG.SHE SAYS THE STORY OF THECHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES BEINGINVENTED BY ACCIDENT IS JUSTTHAT, A STORY.>> THIS IS A SMART WOMAN WHO HADTALENT AND TRAINING.SHE CAME UP WITH THIS IDEACOMING BACK ON AN AIRPLANE FROMEGYPT.SHE HAD BEEN SERVING ABUTTERSCOTCH NUTS COOKIE.IT WAS SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRAYOU PUT ON THE SIDE OF THE DISH.SHE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS POPULAR,BUT MAYBE SHE COULD PUSH ITFURTHER ADO SOMETHING MOREINTERESTING.-- AND DO SOMETHING MOREINTERESTING.>> UP TO THE POINT THAT SHEINVENTED THIS, CHOCOLATE WASUSED IN DESSERTS BUT IT ALWAYSWAS USED MELTED.IN ONE INTERVIEW SHE SAID SHEHAD DONE SOME CHOCOLATEEXPERIMENTS AT COLLEGE, AND SHECREDITED SUE -- SHE SAID, WEWORKED ON THIS TOGETHER.MARIA: SUE PAST EVERYTHING SHEKNEW DOWN TO HER DAUGHTER PEG.BUT HAD HAS NOT SHARED THATKNOWLEDGE OR THE REAL RECIPEUNTIL NOW.AND YOU WILL SEE IT WAS NOT EASYTO GET.MARIA: YOU KNOW YOUR MOM'SRECIPE AND SHE MADE THE ORIGINALTOLLHOUSE COOKIES AT TOLLHOUSEDOWN THE STREET IN WHITMAN.ARE WE READY TO DO THISTOGETHER?2 1/4 CUPS ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR.IS THAT RIGHT?>> NO.MARIA: THIS IS WHY WE ARE HERE.IT TOOK SOME CONVINCING.ACTUALLY, IT TOOK A LOT OFCONVINCING.THIS IS HOW THEY MAKE THESE.THEY CAME OUT GREAT.THESE RIGHT HERE, THIS IS NOTWHAT'S ON THIS RECIPE.>> NO.MARIA: WHAT WILL YOU SHARE WITHME?DO YOU USE REGULAR FLOUR?>> ALL PURPOSE.MARIA: TWO CUPS?>> NO.MARIA: LESS OR MORE?>> MORE.MARIA: TEASPOON OF BAKING SODA?>> 1 1/2.MARIA: LET'S TALK ABOUT THEBUTTER.TWO STICKS OF BUTTER.SALTED OR UNSALTED?>> I DON'T USE BUTTER.I USE CRISCO.MARIA: SHE USED A CUP AND A HALFOF SHORTENING.IT'S THIS RECIPE ON THIS BAGCALLS FOR 3/4 CUP SUGAR, 3/4 CUPBROWN SUGAR.BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THIS RECIPEBY HEART.THAT IS NOT THE CASE.TWO EGGS ON THE RECIPE?>> THREE.MARIA: 1 1/2 TEASPOONS OF BAKINGSODA, 1 1/2 TEASPOONS OF SALT.>> IF I FORGET IT, IT DOESN'TMAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.MARIA: WHAT IS THIS HOT WATER?>> PEG GO SILENT AGAIN.FINALLY SHE BREAKS.YOU DISSOLVE THE SODA I NIT.MARIA: BAKE IN A 350 OVEN FOR 10TO 12 MINUTES.TELL ME WHAT MAKES THIS DONE.PAUL BROUN ON THE EDGE?-- ALL BROWN ON THE EDGE?YOU DON'T DO A CHEWY BOOKIE./-- COOKIE.PEG WORK AT THE RESTAURANT ANDHAS AMAZING MEMORIES.MARIA: FOR THE TROOPS?>> PEOPLE WOULD ORDER THEM,THREE DOZEN.SHE ALWAYS PACKED 40 COOKIES INCASE ANY BROKE.MARIA: THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUSCOOKIE IN THE WORLD.YOU MUST BE PROUD OF THAT.>> OH, YEAH.MARIA: PEG IS PROUD, AND SHAREDHM ABOUT HER MOTHER.SUE WOULD WRITE SOME OF HERRECIPES BACKWARDS AND YOU WOULDHAVE TO HOLD THEM UP TO A MIRRORTO DO THE WHOLE THING -- TO VIEWTHE WHOLE THING.>> SHE DIDN'T SHARE.MARIA: BECAUSE SHE WAS PROUD OFTHEM?ABSOLUTELY.THIS IS A COVETED RECIPE.AND ONE THAT LAUNCHED AMERICA'SLOVE AFFAIR WITH THE CHOCOLATECHIP COOKIE.IF YOU WANT THE ORIGINALTOLLHOUSE RECIPE, CHECK OUT MY

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WHITMAN, Mass. —

Massachusetts claims a lot of “firsts” in our country: the first Thanksgiving, the first World Series, the first American university and the very first modern day chocolate chip cookie. It was created at the Toll House Inn in Whitman in 1938.

Ruth Graves Wakefield owned the inn, and her right-hand lady in the kitchen was Sue Brides.

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“She baked all day long. I used to throw stuff out because she baked so much,” said Brides’ daughter, Peg.

The story goes that Brides and Wakefield created the cookie by accident when they ran out of baking chocolate and grabbed some chocolate pieces to fill the void.

That’s not true, according to Carolyn Wyman, author of The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.

“She (Wakefield) came up with this idea coming back on an airplane from Egypt,” Wyman said. “She had been serving a butterscotch nut cookie, it just was a little extra you put on the side of the dish, and she just thought it was popular but maybe she can push it a little further, do something a little more interesting with it.”

“Up until that point when she invented this, chocolate was used in desserts but it always was used melted, and she actually in one interview said she had done some chocolate experiments at college,” Wyman said Wyman.

Wakefield credited Brides with helping her make the famous chocolate chip cookie.

Brides passed on everything she knew to Peg, but that knowledge hasn’t exactly been shared until now.

“Two and a quarter cups of all-purpose flour, is that right?” asked NewsCenter 5’s Maria Stephanos.

“No,” Peg said. She said the original recipe is not what you find on the back of the Toll House chocolate chip bags.

“I use King Arthur Flour, all-purpose,” Peg told Stephanos. And it’s more than the well-known version of the recipe.